Titolo Rivista ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Autori/Curatori Tommaso Caiazza
Anno di pubblicazione 2022 Fascicolo 2022/299 Suppl. 1
Lingua Inglese Numero pagine 30 P. 7-36 Dimensione file 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/icYearbook2021-oa002
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early twentieth-century San Francisco. It studies the Italians’ integration process through the lens of race by focusing on the racist policies adopted by labour unions, which only admitted "whites" and excluded Asian immigrants. Drawing on a wide variety of sources (the labour press, trade unions’ records, employment data), I will reveal how Italians, although discriminated against and judged as racially inferior, were nonetheless recognised as "white" and therefore assimilated into the labour movement. I argue that this was made possible by the early development of a common "Caucasian" identity among European groups, modelled against Asian immigration, which reduced the tensions that prevailed elsewhere in the United States, namely between the "old stock" and the "new immigrants", among whom many Italians.
Tommaso Caiazza, An "inferior class of white aliens". Italians and the labour movement in nineteenth- and twentieth-century San Francisco in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 299 Suppl. 1/2022, pp 7-36, DOI: 10.3280/icYearbook2021-oa002